April 20, 2009 at 16:32Yandex.Subbotnik: Search
For the second time, Yandex employees prepared an excellent event, at which I received useful information, talked with my friends and new, interesting, acquaintances. If last time I ran out more than a dozen pages in a notebook, then this time I actively tweeted quotes, notes and photos, and perhaps my stream of tweets was the first lengthy report on Russian twitter. Again, my task now is not to transcribe what happened on Saturday, only my impressions.
UPD - reports have already been posted, the video will be at the end of the week.
This time I arrived almost half an hour before the first report. Having greeted my friends, having drunk a cup of coffee and eating a couple of the freshest puffs, I just managed to take my place by the beginning of the first report.
The first word was taken by Bogdan Garkushin, with a report "Methods of organizing a search on a site using Yandex."
They told us, and partially showed all three types of searches from Yandex, which we all, on various contractual terms, can use on our sites, servers and in our networks. This report was valuable to me only in that I listened to questions and answers to them, because I worked quite actively with all three types of searches from Yandex.
And I'm still working with XML. It helps to prepare analytics at the end of the week for the report.
Next, Alexei Baitin and Alexei Osipenko took the floor with the report “Spell Checking Tools in Web Applications”.
Alexey Baitin.
Alexey Osipenko The
guys are preparing a really interesting spelling tool for validating forms in browsers. Judging by the promises of Alekseev, the service will be pretty serious about spelling from Google and the spell check dictionary from FireFox. Let's see, it’s not so long before the release, although according to the assurances of the developers themselves, there’s still no end to work.
Baitin Alexey first shared the theoretical part, as Alexey Osipenko later said, the epic part, and he talked about the technical component of the service.
For example, on modern browsers, the service will allow you to check up to 1500 words, and on IE6-7, old FF and Opera - only up to 300. Users will receive an alert with a warning if there are more words.
The appearance of spellchecking can be customized almost limitlessly, and all access to Yandex servers is one small function.
By the way, they called him Speller.
Then there was a report by Artyom Vorozhtsov "Site Search: Smart Tips."
I’ll say right away, it’s likely, after some time, Yandex will lose the “Search” button on ya.ru , because the scheme that Artyom offers, and most importantly implements, really does not need this button. It makes no sense to talk about it; I recommend that you look and read the reports in a week.
But to be honest, I really want all this to be implemented and implemented as early as possible, for me this would make the search faster, more accurate and more convenient.
In the photo, by the way, you can partially understand what it is about.
Then Dmitry Agafonov puzzled me with the report “Search for phrases in documents of the Yandex Advertising Network”.
I must say right away that almost certainly, this report was the most useful and informative, but because of its usefulness, it was difficult to understand, especially after a long and tasty break, and almost at the end of Saturday. In my opinion, the report should have been launched a little earlier, with a fresh mind.
After 40 minutes of intense attention, we were appalled by the expected phrase - "in general, all this is only 2-3% of the full picture." We were shown the very beginning and some basics. The technology that we were shown, Dmitry called, albeit indirectly, unique.
The paragraph of the plan of Dmitry’s report is “a lot of letters (there will be pictures)”.
And for yummy - “How Blog Search Works” from Anton Volnukhin and Roman Ivanov practically interrupting each other.
Anton Volnukhin
Roman Ivanov
They talked about what blog search is now, what will happen to him tomorrow and what are your plans for the day after tomorrow. A lot of ideas, a lot of assurances that Yandex in this case is just a measure of public opinion, and in no case there is no censorship. They briefly told what is necessary in order to get into the few, so far, Yandex.Blogs ratings. In general, it was very interesting, and the most lively communication was precisely on this report.
Anton usually gave information about the service itself, and Roman more about his position as a service. Although, as I wrote above, they almost interrupted each other, a lot of information, not all useful, but the horror is interesting.
A few short quotes, or conclusions from this report.
By the way, if you are on 97962 place in the Yandex.Blogs rating - do not worry, because you are in the 2% of the most active Russian-speaking bloggers.
Especially before Saturday night, on Friday night, which is Yandex’s bad manners, Yandex.Blogs API - http://api.yandex.ru/blogs posted everything, everything
33% of the blogosphere entries are spam.
Yandex FOAF Scheme is the most popular RDF protocol in the global network, partly because LJ supported it.
Roman Ivanov believes that all Yandex services should be open and transparent, “Yandex is not a shout” (c)
Enough about the program, a little about the little things, without which the impressions would not be so rosy.
At the very end of Subbotnik, a sultry brunette interviewed Roman Ivanov. I wonder where is she from?
A comrade sat in the hall, photographing all the slides. If you see them on the network, don’t look, don’t spoil the impression with the screen - at the end of the week they will be fully laid out, along with the video.
And in general, Roman Ivanov played the role of Friends, Alexander Abramovich, as Timur called him.
Next to me was a guy who downloaded something for forty minutes with ftp.freebsd.org In
front of me was a girl with a wonderful figure o.O.
This time, Yandex's red pen and notebook became more decent, with Elk.
Before Dmitry’s report, there was a technical breakdown, and Bobuk, Roman Ivanov and Timur entertained us and answered our questions. True, Bobuk did not answer why he did not follow me on Twitter. Bobuk, why? By the way, with the day of cooking.
And yet, some got these calendars.
Many thanks to Julia. By the way, she said that on Friday everything will be laid out. she said into the microphone from the stage, so there was little time to wait.
As a summary.
Subbotnik was a success, I got almost everything I wanted from him.
Speakers, for the most part, were terribly cuddled and shy. Guys! You are so much in the subject of your work that forget about shame in front of the audience and tell, tell. We do not care that you are sometimes lost, eeekali or you had problems with the equipment.
There was too much baking again, but much better than not much. And quickly the juices ran out.
As you can see, there are few minuses in general, almost none, pluses and a lot of positive mood, coupled with a huge amount of useful information (which came not only during the reports, but also during just communication).
PS - well, how is it on Subbotnik, and I'm without a mop?
Photos were given by @Kenobius , larger photos and other photos can be viewed here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenobi360/sets/72157616951133559/
Immediately pictures:
From Rostislav Orlov
From Maxim Rukomoinikov
From Yandex itself
UPD - reports have already been posted, the video will be at the end of the week.
This time I arrived almost half an hour before the first report. Having greeted my friends, having drunk a cup of coffee and eating a couple of the freshest puffs, I just managed to take my place by the beginning of the first report.
The first word was taken by Bogdan Garkushin, with a report "Methods of organizing a search on a site using Yandex."
They told us, and partially showed all three types of searches from Yandex, which we all, on various contractual terms, can use on our sites, servers and in our networks. This report was valuable to me only in that I listened to questions and answers to them, because I worked quite actively with all three types of searches from Yandex.
And I'm still working with XML. It helps to prepare analytics at the end of the week for the report.
Next, Alexei Baitin and Alexei Osipenko took the floor with the report “Spell Checking Tools in Web Applications”.
Alexey Baitin.
Alexey Osipenko The
guys are preparing a really interesting spelling tool for validating forms in browsers. Judging by the promises of Alekseev, the service will be pretty serious about spelling from Google and the spell check dictionary from FireFox. Let's see, it’s not so long before the release, although according to the assurances of the developers themselves, there’s still no end to work.
Baitin Alexey first shared the theoretical part, as Alexey Osipenko later said, the epic part, and he talked about the technical component of the service.
For example, on modern browsers, the service will allow you to check up to 1500 words, and on IE6-7, old FF and Opera - only up to 300. Users will receive an alert with a warning if there are more words.
The appearance of spellchecking can be customized almost limitlessly, and all access to Yandex servers is one small function.
By the way, they called him Speller.
Then there was a report by Artyom Vorozhtsov "Site Search: Smart Tips."
I’ll say right away, it’s likely, after some time, Yandex will lose the “Search” button on ya.ru , because the scheme that Artyom offers, and most importantly implements, really does not need this button. It makes no sense to talk about it; I recommend that you look and read the reports in a week.
But to be honest, I really want all this to be implemented and implemented as early as possible, for me this would make the search faster, more accurate and more convenient.
In the photo, by the way, you can partially understand what it is about.
Then Dmitry Agafonov puzzled me with the report “Search for phrases in documents of the Yandex Advertising Network”.
I must say right away that almost certainly, this report was the most useful and informative, but because of its usefulness, it was difficult to understand, especially after a long and tasty break, and almost at the end of Saturday. In my opinion, the report should have been launched a little earlier, with a fresh mind.
After 40 minutes of intense attention, we were appalled by the expected phrase - "in general, all this is only 2-3% of the full picture." We were shown the very beginning and some basics. The technology that we were shown, Dmitry called, albeit indirectly, unique.
The paragraph of the plan of Dmitry’s report is “a lot of letters (there will be pictures)”.
And for yummy - “How Blog Search Works” from Anton Volnukhin and Roman Ivanov practically interrupting each other.
Anton Volnukhin
Roman Ivanov
They talked about what blog search is now, what will happen to him tomorrow and what are your plans for the day after tomorrow. A lot of ideas, a lot of assurances that Yandex in this case is just a measure of public opinion, and in no case there is no censorship. They briefly told what is necessary in order to get into the few, so far, Yandex.Blogs ratings. In general, it was very interesting, and the most lively communication was precisely on this report.
Anton usually gave information about the service itself, and Roman more about his position as a service. Although, as I wrote above, they almost interrupted each other, a lot of information, not all useful, but the horror is interesting.
A few short quotes, or conclusions from this report.
By the way, if you are on 97962 place in the Yandex.Blogs rating - do not worry, because you are in the 2% of the most active Russian-speaking bloggers.
Especially before Saturday night, on Friday night, which is Yandex’s bad manners, Yandex.Blogs API - http://api.yandex.ru/blogs posted everything, everything
33% of the blogosphere entries are spam.
Yandex FOAF Scheme is the most popular RDF protocol in the global network, partly because LJ supported it.
Roman Ivanov believes that all Yandex services should be open and transparent, “Yandex is not a shout” (c)
Enough about the program, a little about the little things, without which the impressions would not be so rosy.
At the very end of Subbotnik, a sultry brunette interviewed Roman Ivanov. I wonder where is she from?
A comrade sat in the hall, photographing all the slides. If you see them on the network, don’t look, don’t spoil the impression with the screen - at the end of the week they will be fully laid out, along with the video.
And in general, Roman Ivanov played the role of Friends, Alexander Abramovich, as Timur called him.
Next to me was a guy who downloaded something for forty minutes with ftp.freebsd.org In
front of me was a girl with a wonderful figure o.O.
This time, Yandex's red pen and notebook became more decent, with Elk.
Before Dmitry’s report, there was a technical breakdown, and Bobuk, Roman Ivanov and Timur entertained us and answered our questions. True, Bobuk did not answer why he did not follow me on Twitter. Bobuk, why? By the way, with the day of cooking.
And yet, some got these calendars.
Many thanks to Julia. By the way, she said that on Friday everything will be laid out. she said into the microphone from the stage, so there was little time to wait.
As a summary.
Subbotnik was a success, I got almost everything I wanted from him.
Speakers, for the most part, were terribly cuddled and shy. Guys! You are so much in the subject of your work that forget about shame in front of the audience and tell, tell. We do not care that you are sometimes lost, eeekali or you had problems with the equipment.
There was too much baking again, but much better than not much. And quickly the juices ran out.
As you can see, there are few minuses in general, almost none, pluses and a lot of positive mood, coupled with a huge amount of useful information (which came not only during the reports, but also during just communication).
PS - well, how is it on Subbotnik, and I'm without a mop?
Photos were given by @Kenobius , larger photos and other photos can be viewed here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenobi360/sets/72157616951133559/